US 11,706,264 B2
Virtual position based management of collaboration sessions
Brian C. Powell, El Segundo, CA (US); Amit Barave, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Carl Nathan Buckles, McKinney, TX (US); Vaishnavi Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US); Tiffany Kristine Pham, Petaluma, CA (US); Sofia Karygianni, Dubendorf (CH); and David C. White, Jr, St. Petersburg, FL (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/385,350.
Prior Publication US 2023/0028265 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 65/1083 (2022.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 65/4038 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 65/1083 (2013.01) [G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); H04L 65/4015 (2013.01); H04L 65/4038 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
establishing a plurality of communication sessions with a plurality of client devices;
establishing a first collaboration session that integrates first communications of the plurality of communication sessions;
obtaining data defining relative positions of a plurality of icons to be presented on displays of the plurality of client devices, each of the plurality of icons associated with a respective one of the plurality of communication sessions, wherein a different name is associated with each of the plurality of icons;
selectively enabling an establishment of a second collaboration session that integrates second communications of two or more communication sessions of the plurality of communication sessions based on relative positions of the icons associated with the two or more communication sessions;
establishing the second collaboration session;
integrating the first communications of the first collaboration session into the second collaboration session;
obtaining data indicating associations between two different names and two of the icons have been swapped; and
removing one of the two or more communication sessions from the second collaboration session based on the data indicating the associations have been swapped.